![]() ![]() Neither the current Runescape 3 (as it is sometimes referred) or Old School seem at any immediate risk, especially if the Old School site's claim of having over 51,000 concurrent players is accurate. The death of RuneScape Classic doesn't seem to be the harbinger of any further bad news, either. Those left behind by this still have two versions of RuneScape to upgrade to, and that Classic was a subscriber-only version of the game for players who had been there since the early days, with server populations in the low hundreds. Keep in mind that RuneScape Classic is separate from the highly popular RuneScape Old School, an older but still well-supported version of the game, similar in visual style to Classic but a little more contemporary under the hood. Bots are now a problem growing out of control, and they don't have the manpower to ensure community safety and standards on the legacy server either. Jagex's main cited reason for this planned shutdown is that their community management tools (especially those they use to detect bots and macros) have evolved with the present iteration of the game, and left Classic behind. ![]() Jagex reckon the time has come to put the old warhorse out to pasture, and will shut down the servers on August 6th. While RuneScape itself has evolved into something far more contemporary in appearance, the Classic version - a living archive of the original 2001 release - has remained largely untouched, just slowly gathering largely-unfixable bug reports. Browser-based MMORPG RuneScape has been chugging along since 2001, offering exploration, questing and eternal grind to practically anyone with an internet connection. Free-to-play worlds were made available on 19 February2015, in celebration of Old School's second birthday.It feels like the end of an era when a game as venerable as this shuts down, even if it is just a particularly dusty old legacy incarnation exclusive to long-time subscribers to the game. It was polled the following week, and passed by 85.9%. On 25 January2015, Mod Mat K held a 'special discussion' about F2P for OSRS, and it was announced that permanent free-to-play would come to the game if membership bonds were introduced. ![]() The current lowest players peak player number was on 8 August 2013. The current highest peak player number was obtained on 14 January 2018. However, during offpeak, the count has dwindled to as low as 3,566. During peak times, player count has been seen to rise up to 81,499. On day 1, the Old School Servers hit 50,000 online players after being up for only 4 hours.However, with the introduction of the Grand Exchange in Old School RuneScape, grimy herbs were reinstated to allow previously unidentified herbs to be listed on the Grand Exchange. Unidentified herbs were reinstated on 25 February2013. This was intentionally done by Jagex to prevent players from scamming. When Old School RuneScape was initially released, uncleaned herbs were grimy even though on 10 August 2007, uncleaned herbs were still unidentified.This also included newly added holiday items unique to Old School e.g. Later on, all holiday items from previous events were rewarded in bulk for completion of the corresponding holiday events (Players completing an Easter event would receive all holiday items from previous Easter holiday events). Players vote on nearly everything before it's implemented in game - 75% approval is needed. ![]() There also exist items that were never available before, such as beach boxing gloves and black partyhats. Items that have been previously discontinued still exist.A number of minigames do not exist however, there are some minigames unique to Old School.Distractions and Diversions do not exist officially, however some that were later given this title exist.There is no Summoning, Dungeoneering, Divination, Invention, or Archaeology skill.There is no Squeal of Fortune, Treasure Hunter, or Solomon's General Store.Quests introduced after that go in a separate path to avoid 'conflict' between Old School RuneScape and the live game. The latest quest from the original game is King's Ransom.Graphics are basic, with no texture packs to enhance models.Old School has combat that is mediated exclusively with weapons, armours, and prayers rather than the current combat system which makes use of abilities.Players must be aged 13 or over to play Old School RuneScape, as Quick Chat does not exist there.Core differences between Old School & the live game ![]()
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